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  2. Emlen funnel - Wikipedia

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    An ink pad is placed on the bottom, so when the bird hops or flutters onto the sloping walls it leaves a track before slipping back down again. The bird's view through the top of the cage can be manipulated to show how it responds to different apparent "star patterns" (actually generated in a planetarium ).

  3. Viola pedata - Wikipedia

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    Viola pedata, the birdsfoot violet, bird's-foot violet, or mountain pansy, is a violet native to sandy areas in central and eastern North America. Varieties [ edit ]

  4. Supernormal stimulus - Wikipedia

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    Animals exhibiting, or responding to, characteristics that represent a supernormal stimulus usually display them as a result of selective pressures.Co-evolution between animals displaying supernormal stimuli, and the organisms responding to the supernormal stimuli, rely on evolution and propagation of genetics, behavioral patterns, and other biological factors. [4]

  5. Brazilian guitarfish - Wikipedia

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    At this time the fish are subject to intense fishing activity but catches have been dwindling in recent years as a result of overfishing. Because so few breeding-size fish remain, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the fish's conservation status as being " critically endangered ".

  6. Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness ... - AOL

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    Birch said these experiments are part of an expansion of animal consciousness research over the past 10 to 15 years. “We can have this much broader canvas where we’re studying it in a very ...

  7. Sandwich tern - Wikipedia

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    Young birds bear grey and brown scalloped plumage on their backs and wings. It is a vocal bird. It nests in a ground scrape and lays one to three eggs. Like all Thalasseus terns, the Sandwich tern feeds by plunge diving for fish, usually in marine environments, and the offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.

  8. Homing (biology) - Wikipedia

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    This is usually used together with other methods, such as a sun compass, as in bird migration and in the case of turtles. This is also commonly used when no other methods are available, as in the case of lobsters , [ 3 ] which live underwater, and mole rats , [ 4 ] which home through their burrows .

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